IP and ATM failed to deliver ? [7:26245]

2001-11-14 Thread John Green
IP and ATM failed to deliver ? well i don't say this but got this from the web site of a competitor of cisco!! But that is besides the point. Below I have reproduced the text verbatim. what it says that both IP and ATM failed as carriers to carry puredata due to different reasons as explained

Re: IP and ATM failed to deliver ? [7:26245]

2001-11-14 Thread MADMAN
Be interesting to see the full context of this. Where it came from might clue one into any bias. I do know the are issue scaling ATM SVC's but we have a huge ATM backbone. Dave John Green wrote: IP and ATM failed to deliver ? well i don't say this but got this from the web site of

Re: IP and ATM failed to deliver ? [7:26245]

2001-11-14 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
That's called marketing-speak. You are having the right reaction of a true engineer (i.e. skepticism!) ;-) One of the biggest networks in the world is based on IP and ATM (and other technologies). It's called the Internet. Priscilla At 12:17 PM 11/14/01, John Green wrote: IP and ATM failed to

RE: IP and ATM failed to deliver ? [7:26245]

2001-11-14 Thread jason
IMHO, this is a little vague and definitely out of date. Although both ATM and IP held the promise of building converged networks in principle, neither actually delivered in practice. ATM networks were unsuccessful because they could not scale to the levels required for pure data